Sixth International Meeting of the Paulo Freire Forum
This year marks ten years since the inaugural meeting of the Forum and the fortieth anniversary of Pedagogy of the Oppressed. The Paulo Freire Institute and the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) invite the Freirian community to the Sixth International Meeting of the Paulo Freire Forum. The event will take place from the 16th to the 20th of September on the campus of PUC-SP and its theme will be
Globalization, Education and Social Movements: 40 years of Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
PFI/PUC Partnership
There is something symbolic about the partnership between the Paulo Freire Institute (PFI) and the Faculty of Education of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), co-hosts of the sixth international meeting of the Forum: their spaces became two of Paulo Freire’s great workplaces during his final years. When he wasn’t on the road teaching throughout Brazil or abroad, Freire was a professor at PUC from 1981 until 1997. In the last decade of the twentieth century, the inspirational founder of the PFI continued to be an active presence at PUC until his death. In both spaces, the Freirian legacy is alive and in a constant process of reinvention. This is due not only to the fact that there are many colleagues in both places who worked with and learned from Paulo Freire, but, above all, because his projects incorporated the most substantial principles of Freirian praxis and were based on
education as the practice of freedom.